Annie’s man was running a fake lab in Oregon
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PakistaniAnnie’s man was running a fake lab in Oregon
34-year-old Jehangir Ali has been charged with financial fraud, claiming for the past year to run a medical laboratory that was nothing more than an empty storefront. According to court documents, from June 2025 to January 2026, Ali submitted more than $46 million in claims to Medicare Advantage plans but investigators discovered he did not have a laboratory.
The Pakistani-born man from Oregon claimed to own and operate the Oregon Clinical Laboratory in Klamath Falls for genetic testing, but it was just an empty storefront. Ali made his first appearance on February 27, 2026 in the Central District of California. A detention hearing was held on March 4, 2026 in the Central District of California and Ali was ordered detained pending further court proceedings. A detention hearing was held in Oregon County, and Ali was ordered to remain in custody pending further court proceedings.
He came to the United States on a student visa and was fleeing to Pakistan
Ali came to the United States on a student visa, Oregon Live reported, adding that when he ran out of money for college courses, a Pakistani friend lured him into the alleged scam. He also applied for asylum in the United States despite being arrested when he was on his way back to Pakistan on a one-way ticket via Türkiye.
Fake Claims and Fake Beneficiaries: Ali Scam Revealed
Medicare Advantage is a private alternative to Medicare that covers hospitalization, prescription drugs, etc. Medicare Advantage paid $28 million to fake lab based on fraudulent claims.
The scam involved using the identities of the actual provider and beneficiary to submit fake claims and open bank accounts to receive the refund. The alleged beneficiaries behind the bogus claims told investigators they had never heard of the Oregon Clinical Laboratory or ordered any tests through it, according to a federal complaint.Ali ran the same scam in Utah in 2024 and set up the Utah Clinical Laboratory in St. George which also raised money through fraud. To give an example of Ali’s fraud, Oregon Live cited one particular case in which an Oregon clinical laboratory paid more than $122,000 to Cigna Medicare Advantage insurance plans for lab tests allegedly ordered by a doctor in Tennessee, and the plans paid more than $108,000 for the tests. Investigators found that the doctor had never heard of the Oregon lab and had never ordered any tests.
